diff --git a/git/PKGBUILD b/git/PKGBUILD
index 9e84310b..4cfde4a9 100644
--- a/git/PKGBUILD
+++ b/git/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 pkgname=git
 pkgver=2.8.1
-pkgrel=3
+pkgrel=4
 pkgdesc="The fast distributed version control system"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="https://git-scm.com/"
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ sha256sums=('e08503ecaf5d3ac10c40f22871c996a392256c8d038d16f52ebf974cba29ae42'
             'deb39583002770bdfb3d612562e9db73cd6fbd6cc6639fc5d3aeeae25e54ebcc'
             'a82df3fc9a80b9f9003a9b9feca063413b14630c043c0b2b88bf2c61c46154cc'
             'f67412f829e026b677d4c3ceacfb21da0549ad4636fb07c283e52c3fd5aa3e22'
-            'ae5a2457b51ecdb6b5844c67c0ac402fe99847fed5402975df7330beec355951')
+            'fb405b47c5de08ba73082db959222f5ec87568794e002533cc0b1dcb7edad3d4')
 
 prepare() {
   cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ prepare() {
   patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}"/git-1.9.0-manifest-msys2.patch
   patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}"/git-1.8.4-msys2.patch
   patch -p2 -i "${srcdir}"/git-2.3.5-mingw-pwd.patch
-  patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}"/git-2.8.1-Cygwin-Allow-DOS-paths.patch
+  #patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}"/git-2.8.1-Cygwin-Allow-DOS-paths.patch
 
   local _arch=
   if [ "${CARCH}" == 'x86_64' ]; then
diff --git a/git/git-2.8.1-Cygwin-Allow-DOS-paths.patch b/git/git-2.8.1-Cygwin-Allow-DOS-paths.patch
index 9d6fe9d9..b2b5ac7d 100644
--- a/git/git-2.8.1-Cygwin-Allow-DOS-paths.patch
+++ b/git/git-2.8.1-Cygwin-Allow-DOS-paths.patch
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
  }
  
 +/*
-+ * Always duplicates `path` even if no conversion was performed.
++ * Avoids duplicating `path` if not needed unless `always_dupe` is non-zero.
 + */
 +char *maybe_xstrdup_cyg_conv_path(const char *path, int always_dupe)
 +{